Discovering My Autism

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (With Apologies to Cardinal Newman)

Edgar Schneider

Paperback: £15.99 / $25.95

1999, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 144pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-724-6, BIC 2: VFJD BG

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Prologue. 1. The determining time period. 2. Aftermath. 3. Resolution, of a sort. 4. Suspicions. 5. A revelation. 6. Recap of a terrible period. 7. Correlating my past life. 8. An interesting aside. 9. My tastes. 10. What I mean by the word `love'. 11. A missing faculty. 12. Two perilous characteristics. 13. Can `heartless' pity be real? 14. Grief. 15. Death and the afterlife. 16. Solitude and loneliness. 17. Learning. 18. Values manufested during military service. 19. Interactions with others. 20. Art as an early outlet. 21. Religion. 22. Disclaimers about religion. 23. A perhaps dangerous characteristic. 24. The upshot of this self-discovery. 25. Is a future close relationship possible? 26. Waxing philosophical about `love' among the non-autistic. 27. The emotional deficit. 28. Self-compensating. 29. Our own country. 30. Retrospect. 31. What I have tried to do here. 32. Conclusion. 33. Epilogue.

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Author information

• Edgar Schneider

Subject areas

• Asperger Syndrome, Autism and other Syndromes

Keywords

• autism,
• memoirs

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